Application of deep learning to the diagnosis of cervical lymph node metastasis from thyroid cancer with CT

To develop a deep learning–based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for use in the CT diagnosis of cervical lymph node metastasis (LNM) in patients with thyroid cancer. A total of 995 axial CT images that included benign (n = 647) and malignant (n = 348) lymph nodes were collected from 202 patients with thyroid cancer who underwent CT for surgical planning between July 2017 and January 2018. The datasets were randomly split into training...